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The action-thriller has traditionally been a really conservative genre. You know how it goes: there's a muscled-up good guy who's pushed to his limit, and eventually decides that some killing needs to be done (bank robbers, drug runners, the Vietnamese, it doesn't really matter - it's usually just some group that threatens his family). So Generic Hero tries to right the bad guys' wrongs without resorting to violence, completely fails during the second act, and eventually just kills all the baddies in a cathartic ballet of blood. That outcome is normally posited as the best-case scenario.
So a lot of these movies actually start to move away from the 'conservative' right and into the realm of 'pseudo-fascistic.' But not "Snitch" - no, this potboiler swaps out heavy artillery for a bleeding heart. And the villain is no less the American government. This one's all about the 'mandatory minimum sentencing' laws. First instituted in New York State in the 70s, they make the ideas of leniency and context irrelevant in drug cases. Basically, if you're caught possessing 'X' amount of a hard drug (let's say a couple of ounces,) you're going to jail for 15 years to life. The situation that led to the arrest itself doesn't matter.
You can say they were a manner in which to win an unwinnable war on drugs (by the way, we lost that war anyway), but the laws, in retrospect, seem more an excuse for a paranoid society to lock away minorities for decades on end, for nonviolent crimes, and then throw away the key. So it's not shocking that, now that the mainstream is finally starting to ease up on drug policy, (individual states are beginning to legalize pot), we get a big action star like The Rock to stand up and battle against the system, as if it were the Russian Spy in a James Cameron movie.
And he's a fitting choice for such an atypical actioner. Guys like Schwarzenegger and Stallone always look like their roided out biceps are about to explode out of their skin; and they make it seem like an AK-47 is a natural extension of their fists. Not Rocky. His talents as an action star come in his unassuming nature: he seems puzzled by guns, and we believe it when he sheepishly Googles 'drug dealer' in search of information. His muscles hide behind collared shirts as if he doesn't even know what to do with his girth.
So when the DEA nabs his son for accepting a package with "two boats" of ecstasy in it (in the films' funniest moment, there's a beeping DEA tablet in the package, the type you get when waiting at Applebee's,) Johnson breaks down at the sight of his black-eyed boy in prison, and we believe it. When he naively begs the arresting officer (Barry Pepper) and an overzealous city official (Susan Sarandon) to let him snitch on drug dealers to commute his son's sentence, we believe it.
When he walks into a Blood drug den run by murderous kingpin Malik (Michael K. Williams,) asking for drugs as if he were buying a pack of Gatorade from CVS, we believe it. And when he's locked up in a car chase, scratching and clawing away for his life against a Mexican cartel, we believe it. He's not a hero, he's a regular guy (who just happens to outweigh other regular guys by 150 pounds.) All that's very rare for a C-grade action movie. And, progressive politics or not, this is definitively a C-grade action movie.
Unfortunately, Waugh doesn't seem to trust his stars' formidable acting chops. He overlays every scene with a string-based, tear-jerking score that immediately throws every emotion into the realm of kitsch. As hard as Johnson tries, it's impossible to connect when the direction is pitched at the tone of a Lifetime movie. And with the action sequences so unfulfilling - a car chase here, a foot chase there, all shot with a disorienting shaky cam - the only thing left to appreciate is Barry Pepper's magnificent goatee.
A telling piece of on-screen text closes the film, sending you out of the theatre with facts about the rate of drug arrests vs. the rate of violent arrests in America. It shows the films' hand. This is firstly a primer on America's drug policy and its apparent corruption; secondly, it's an action film. I'm left wishing we had less of Ric Waugh's heavy hands and more of the Rock's.
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John Long: A Man for All Seasons
The myth of Oliver Moon changed the face of Yosemite climbing forever.
This article appeared in Rock and Ice issue 166 (March 2008).
I'd borrowed my dad's 50-foot, three-ton Lincoln Continental with its mammoth 500-cubic-inch engine. The mileage was shit but who cared? Gas was 34.9 cents a gallon. I snagged Richard Harrison and gunned it onto the Riverside Freeway heading for Roubidoux, a popular practice climbing area an hour east of LA.
It was October, 1971, and Vietnam was boiling over onto the streets; many turnoffs we passed were strewn with veterans, glum and distant, hitchhiking to nowhere in particular. Madmen had recently gunned down Martin and Bobby, and even as we drove, the National Guard was opening fire on Kent State and prisoners were tearing down the walls at Attica and San Quentin. When Neil Armstrong took that Giant Step onto the moon a couple of years before, galactic order was apparently disrupted and the Home of the Brave slid off its foundations.
Amidst the turmoil, Richard and I grappled with rock, searching for the solid stuff, something real we could grab and pull and stand on because our world felt alien and spun out.
Our immediate challenge was figuring out the fine points of the Swiss Seat, and we spent most of that morning descending a 30-foot overhanging wall. Getting the sling adjusted so it wouldn't garrote our 'nads or migrate up to our necks took half a dozen rappels; not 'till the last one did I notice a free-climbing line so thin Richard couldn't see a hold until I ticked them all with chalk.
We both managed the first few moves, heaving ourselves up on flaky corns, but no more. So we took turns lowering down from the top, trying to hang onto holds so bleak that three decades later the Moon Shot is still spanking America's finest. Anyway, the wall had been chalked bottom to top when (as we later recounted) up walked a stranger, shirtless, shod in varappes and chalked to the elbows. He was just as white and muscled as Michelangelo's The Dying Slave, and his dark eyes, passionate, but touched by a haunting dolor, locked onto those chalked holds. I'll just have a go, then, he said by way of an introduction, and hiked the thing straight off, cordless, pausing only for the last move, a sloping mantel. He didn't return to the base for praise or small talk, he just pushed on, scouring the hillside for greater adventures. Richard and I couldn't have been more amazed had a buffalo pranced by on its hind legs.
Reports of the chalked wall and the impossibly hard new free climb quickly circulated. When we returned to Roubidoux a few days later, we were cornered straight off by a Sierra Club outing leader, an accomplished Tahquitz veteran who had spotted us on the impossible wall the previous weekend.
"Out with it, boys," said the outing leader. "What gives with those chalk marks?"
"Right before our eyes," I said, "this wizard walks up and free solos the sucker in nothing flat, then up and vanishes."
"I'm telling you," said Richard. "Never got a name, though."
"The whole thing's a lie!" the leader barked.
"It's the plain truth," another chimed in, a mustachioed philosophy student with a cinder block physique who, along with several others from UC Riverside, the local university, said they had spotted the phantom climber soloing all over the mountainside. "The guy yards up and down the Joe Brown Boulder 50-foot high, 5.11ish like it's a stepladder," said mustache. "Then it's straight up Aunt Amy's Anus!"
"That's a stinking lie!" the Sierra Club boss repeated, and I wondered myself. Even the greatest visiting climbers rarely probed the troublesome Anus, a dark and unctuous lacuna. Successful ascents, counted on one hand, were always accomplished with a toprope, usually snug as a bowstring. I went to question the alleged Anus ascent but by now everyone was yelling over each other.
One eyewitness, with two giant buckteeth and a voice like Tom Hanks, claimed the phantom soloist was French, with a glassy pate and hands like Pain Poilane. Another, visiting from Colorado, with a green felt hat like the one Whymper wore on the Matterhorn, said the soloist was the prodigal son of a missionary, recently returned from the boulder-choked interior of Borneo, strong like a bull, but so skinny he can bivy inside a blow gun.
"He's just some neighbor kid who's wired up a few problems," said still another, a carpenter who lived at the foot of the mountain.
But, as I'd later explain to the crowds, the mystery man was none of the above, though to find out as much took some digging and another chance encounter, out by Equinox, in the nether regions of Joshua Tree. We were just dumping out our packs when we spotted someone, maybe a hundred yards across the valley, on a 5.10 offwidth we'd bagged the previous winter.
"Guy's got no line on him," exclaimed Richard.
"Apparently not," I said.
"He's climbing down," Richard added.
"Let's go and we jogged over."
The phantom soloist offered his hand and said, "Moon. Oliver Moon. By chance you bring a rope?"
The British accent was subtle but evident.
"Two," I said.
"And we're fixing to put them to good use," said Richard.
So we tied in for a few routes that day, and though we managed to follow Moon's lead (Moon always led) with faculty, it was the attention shown us by his hound dog, a Liverpudlian mastiff named Claudius, that probably sealed our friendship, if you could call it that. At best we were tolerated, since Moon was solitary in the extreme and did the bulk of his climbing solo, though he fancied a rope and a belay for his more ambitious projects. That's where we figured in.
Once word got out that we were roping up with the author of the notorious Moon Shot, we were pestered half mad by questions about the man calls
at home, telegrams, letters. We were flagged over at every crag and the bottom and top of every route. The crowd only backed off a few months later, when I found myself at a giant campfire gathering at Josh. Moon rarely talked about himself, but little by little we'd learned the rudiments of his background.
"Oliver Thornycroft Moon is British," I started, "the illegitimate son of a defrocked priest and multimillionaire named Alfred North Moon, lately of Glockenshire, a little pub town in the middle of gritstone country."
I was reading Bront's achingly dreary Wuthering Heights in my freshman lit class and was intrigued by the parallels to Heathcliff. But the moment I went to contrast the two men, cries of "Bugger Heathcliff," and, "Get on back to Moon, will ya?" rang from the crowd. It was no use.
So I explained how Moon grew up on the grit to the extent that climbing (soloing, by and large) was not so much something he did, rather it was who he was. A born mountaineer, he'd taken to the rock much as the vicar had done during his youth.
"Wonder why he left the UK?" someone asked.
"The reasons are vague," I said, "though over time, certain things have come to light. We know of an intrigue involving an Austrian countess, and some business about dueling pistols and throwing knives, and several mysterious deaths."
I had barely finished the bit about throwing knives when half the crowd shagged off for their mess kits, and, wielding such cutlery as they could muster, began letting fly at a nearby yucca. An errant blade pierced a Swede's tent and a night hiker was struck in the backside. The rangers were called and the knives put away.
It was into the wee hours before I finished running down Moon's background, that the greatest free climber alive had fled to America, buoyed by a personal fortune running into the millions, a weakness for race cars and the ponies, and an insatiable taste for new rock. I explained that shortly after we met the Englishman, Spencer Young of the Olive Branch Genealogy Library in Salt Lake City supplied us with historical data on the Moon clan as well as a coat of arms for the House of Moon, consisting of a mirror image of hedge hogs, wreathed by crescent moons and growling above crossed scimitars and the words Magnus Pectus Semper (Big Breasts Forever).
Throughout that winter, we'd meet Moon at prearranged times and places. He'd blaze up a host of climbs, dragging lines for us then he would screech off in his fire-engine-red Jaguar XKE. For sure, the red roadster was key in building the Moon legacy. By sheer fluke, an officer at the Marine base in 29 Palms also owned a red XKE, and a few times a week would race it through the monument. This was back when you could do such a thing and not go to jail, or even get caught. I met the officer at a burger joint in Yucca Valley and encouraged him to keep up the good work, especially on weekends when the monument was packed with witnesses.
Count on it, soldier, he said, and was good to his word because hundreds of people saw the red Jaguar blasting along the big straight away out past Conan's Corridor. Some claimed it was a Ferrari Datona, still others a Lamborghini Countach. Either way, it was red and it was fast and every time someone observed the roadster blazing into the horizon, O. Moon got the credit.
The majority of our best climbs back then were either led by Moon, with us following, or more often than not, Moon would make the second ascent, invariably onsight and cordless. In only a month after he'd first been seen driving upwards of 150 mph in his red sports car (the Lt. Colonel who owned the other XKE said he rarely got it over 60 mph within park boundaries), Oliver Moon had been spotted soloing all over the Monument. He was even written up in the first climbing guide. Better yet, a handful of people claimed to have climbed with Moon, something we found very unlikely.
As Moon waxed, every campfire burned with anecdotes about the Phenomenal Pom, as he was sometimes called. There were Moon sightings in Yosemite, atop the Mexican volcanoes, in the Andes. There was even talk of Moon sneaking into the Himalayas and soloing K2, sans porters and permits. Only three months after his first solos out at Roubidoux, O. Moon, or at any rate, O. Moon's image, was going galactic.
The majority of things said about Moon came straight out of a bong pipe; but the effect on us in the know was greater, perhaps, than all others, and did much more than confirm our Dionysian tendency to hop things up. In taking human form, Oliver Moon not only shouldered our wildest dreams and projections, he became a talisman who, through imagination and inspiration, slowly drew us up to his rarified plane. Out on the sharp end, on a new route, a dozen feet above a sketchy wire, people wondered: What would Moon do? This simple question, asked a thousand different ways, changed lives, especially our own.
Culturally, America was at a crossroads. Racial prejudice and aggression the two-headed monster that had spurred a civil war and dominated the national agenda almost from the outset were being turned back by the bold few who risked everything for peace and freedom. In its own way, climbing faced a similar crossroads, and so did we climbers.
The Yosemite pioneers had struck camp and the local So Cal saviors were succumbing to family, careers and malt liquor. How could our generation find direction without mentors, without a few torch-bearers to light the way ahead? To bridge the gap, to hurl us past the moribund and into a world of possibilities, we needed a catalyst, an outsized champion like Oliver Moon. In fact, we couldn't have lived without him.
At the end of the school year we all migrated up to Yosemite, and Oliver Moon came right along with us. Sort of. The Stonemasters were still a year or so off and in this sense Oliver Moon was a transitional guide to the Stonemaster crusade. And nowhere could the Moon legacy take faster and deeper root than in Yosemite Valley. Just as it happened down south, What would Moon do? became the operative question once the Englishman's credentials were known and understood by the Camp 4 faithful which took about 15 minutes.
It was also here, in the Valley, that we found an improbable mentor in Jim the Bird Bridwell.
Most of us slept straight on the ground, or slithered inside five-dollar tube tents. The Bird, on the other hand, had a massive green canvas tent that resembled General Schwarzkopf's field office during Desert Storm.
In the clashing aromas of odoriferous EBs, ragweed, Camel straights, Lucky Lager, and green stick incense, we'd lounge away the evenings sprawled out in the Bird's chambers, abusing drug and drink and discussing the days doings.
"I'm thinking Moon would have just laybacked the thing, someone would offer, about a crack one or the other of us jammed straight on."
"I'll see that to believe it."
"You'd see it and weep, or I'll kiss the Limey's arse myself."
Then the arguments would break out and always at the center was the genius of O. Moon, to which everything and everybody was measured. Moon was scheduled to show up later that summer and everyone was dying to meet and climb with the master.
Slowly, the constant Moon comparisons and the speculation about the Englishman's technique and crypto-romantic life started ringing hollow. This was the first summer in the Valley for many of us and during those initial few months our learning curve was steep as the Leaning Tower. Toward the end of summer we were pulling even with existing standards and in some cases, starting to nudge them a little further out there. Over time the emphasis shifted away from Moon and his legendary accomplishments, and over to what we were doing. I still remember one evening toward the end of summer when three or four of us were loafing in the Bird's tent and someone said, Oliver Moon ain't gonna make it to Yosemite.
"Not now or ever," said another.
"Who needs him?"
"We'll always need heroes," said the Bird, "so give the man his due." And we hoisted the pipe in his honor.
For a few weeks a rumor went around that Moon had died free soloing in the Bugaboos. Then that rumor itself died and Oliver Moon was forgotten as fast as he had sprung from the lamp out at Mount Roubidoux, barely six months before.
Every once in awhile I find myself surfing through various climbing websites, clicking on the ubiquitous threads about religion or faith or the science of mind. There are always those party poopers insisting that anything we can't measure is not real and therefore has only imaginary effects on our lives. Brilliant arguments often outline our primary need for data. And yet despite our dependence on stats, we find ourselves in trouble at least part of the time scared, lost and angry. America is not the same country that galled and amazed us in 1971, though, sadly, the issues of race and war continue to deplete our nation and the world. Is not deliverance from such vexations more important than another round of facts and figures?
I should have asked the kid call him Hunter who I saw a few weekends ago out at Roubidoux, nearly pulling his arms off while trying to dick the Moon Shot. He couldn't grasp how anyone had on-sight flashed the thing. Nonetheless, the Prometheus of Oliver Moon, concocted on the spot and pasted on that very wall of quartz monzonite some 35 years before, put such gunpowder in Hunter's veins that he came within a few moves of actually climbing the damn thing. Just as the legacies of King and Kennedy continue to stoke our embers today, Moon's myth kindled real effects in the real world. Pieced with desperation and cultural frisson, Oliver Moon sprang full blown out of the broken heart of America; and like a Frankenstein composed of disparate parts, he took on a life of his own not a monster but an inspired hero. When Hunter looked up at the legendary wall, his eyes shined. He would be back. He would climb the Moon Shot, he promised. No doubt he will, if he hasn't already.
Because our lives are written in rain, we've always required more than maps and statistics. And most of us have entertained two basic questions: are we Odysseus, or Penelope's pretenders? A handful of special people appear most every generation. We call them heroes, leaders and saints, and in the end they all serve as catalysts for the call to action. If we heed the call we ride their vapors right to Polyphemos, the Goggle-eye, and a thousand wonders beyond. Of course, Polyphemos can signify many challenges, from social movements to quests into the unknown, all of which are victories for the human spirit and the best proof that imagination is a true force in the world. Cave walls, ancient tombs and our earliest writings all illustrate our longing for cities of gold, for men who walk on water, women who launch a thousand ships, and people who can levitate up holdless walls of rock. If you were around the So Cal climbing scene during the early 1970s, in your own way you probably knew such a climber, a man we could never fully outgrow and wouldn't want to, besides. His name was Oliver Thornycroft Moon.
Longtime Rock and Ice contributor John Long, one of the original Stonemasters, is perhaps best known for his first free ascent of Astroman and first one day ascent of the Nose of El Capitan. He is the author or editor of over 30 books and the recipient of the American Alpine Club Literary Award.
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Anderson Cooper reflects on the lives of children and educators tragically killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
We will remember:
Charlotte Bacon, 6, Daniel Barden, 7, Olivia Engel, 6, Josephine Gay, 7, Ana Marquez-Greene, 6, Dylan Hockley, 6, Madeline Hsu, 6, Catherine Hubbard, 6, Chase Kowalski, 7, Jesse Lewis, 6, James Mattioli, 6, Grace McDonnell, 7, Emilie Parker, 6, Jack Pinto, 6, Noah Pozner, 6, Caroline Previdi, 6, Jessica Rekos, 6, Avielle Richman, 6, Benjamin Wheeler, 6, Allison Wyatt, 6, Rachel Davino, 29, Dawn Hochsprung, 47, Anne Marie Murphy, 52, Lauren Rousseau, 30, Mary Sherlach, 56, Victoria Soto, 27.
I keep asking my self if I am from Jamaica and I don't know these little angels and the amazing adults and I am hurting so much (can't stop crying) how on earth are their families coping? How?
Thank you for this beautiful Tribute to them! I will never forget their lives. God bless you!
It is pretty sad that people have to put negative messages about the NEWTON SHOOTINGS, stories of the victims should not be forgotten everyone should continue to hear about it, it is important. ANDERSON COOPER and staff are doing a wonderful job, I will not forget and no one else should. THE PARENTS of the shooter is at fault for not getting help to the son quicker, and yes the mother of the shooter is a victim, but, still knew what her son was like and did nothing.
Not one of these children over 7 yet I'm pretty sure I will never forget about them, long as I live...
Mr.Anderson you are doing a surperb job for the New Town victims families, by being with them at their the terrible grief, please continue the good work, you will be blessed. We are also upholding these families in their grief. Bless these precious souls.
I am as disturbed by the Newtown, Connecticut tragedy as anyone else. But is it necessary for CNN to broadcast the story 24/7? Surely, there is other news you could report. Also, have you considered that your extensive coverage of the tragedy serves as an incentive for the next mentally-ill person to commit a copycat crime? Your coverage is just too much for me. I will stop watching CNN until you begin to report other events.
I stopped watching on the second day. Your network seems to make an obsession and your reporters a competition out of these tradgic events. It is very disturbing to watch, and supercedes the facts of the story. The inaccuracies that you have reported completely and permenently distorted the facts in the minds of millions of viewers. If you do not know the facts, then you should say nothing. It is not your job to create the news. It is your job to report the facts. Unforgiveable and unprofessional.
I applaud the coverage. It's difficult to watch, but I feel exactly as I did on 9/11. Newtown doesn't get to turn the channel. New York didn't get to turn the channel. Why should the rest of us have it so easy. This could have happened anywhere. We need to act and FEEL as if it did. Just because the luck of the draw allowed my life to go on unchanged, doesn't mean the impact and importance of these events shouldn't be absorbed and pondered a LOt....pondered to the point wherin I'm so deeply touched I'm compelled to make my own small improvement in the quality of my human existance. All citizens owe it to these lost ones' memories in such tragic events create good following evil. The creation of new charities; new laws; new security practices; even simply new Resolutions to improve on a particular virtue within one's own life. I won't allow my daily tears to be eased by simply turning the channel. Even completely on the other side of the U.S., with no connection to any family in either event, I will foster some kind of good for the sake of those dead who can't foster it on their own anymore.
While our hearts are grieving for the children, families, and staff of this devastating tragedy in Newtown, CT; I am angry with the news media, politicians, and fellow Americans for denying Nancy Lanza as a victim and excluding her from the many memorials. She was a mother who did not choose to raise a child to commit such unspeakable acts of violence and did not choose to be murdered at the hands of the child she raised, nurtured, and loved. Please, Cooper & fellow Americans, do something to make this right as Nancy is also a victim and should be acknowledged!
You are right, and wrong about Adam's mother, Nancy. Her mistake – which had she not died, would expose her to possible criminal prosecution – was not locking up her weaponry.....................Especially, if she knew she had a troubled/special needs child.
I truly hope that all the news media will give equal coverage of EVERY CHILD who has a funeral serv.today.We lost 20 Beautiful children and we all want to hear about every one of them,not just a few,but ALL!! I know there are still 2 of the children who's parent have chose not to release there pictures yet and that is uderstandalble,but we still want to hear the media talk about EVERY child in equal coverage.
You have the power that many people could never have. You have the power and the voice to expose drug companies and their anti-depressants. The common two factors in these shootings are Number 1-Guns and Number 2- antidrepressants. We all hear how bad guns are and how there should be limitations on what you can own. But its ok for a person to be prescriped multiple drugs from a doctor. Over the past two decades research how much these drugs have increased and see where they coincide with mass shootings. The problem with prescription drugs is, there is way to much money and power wrapped up in them. I am not some gun toting maniac but owing guns should not be the only thing being attacked!
I have been in the United States military for over 27 years. I very much love my country and have put my life on the line in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan defending the principles and values of America and the freedoms we as Americans enjoy. It saddens me that as I plan my retirement I look at living in another country. This decision is based on many factors but the one that stands out most is the safety of my family and the ability of anyone to get a firearm in the U.S. Our society hides behind the 2nd amendment and the "right to bear arms". But isn't it a basic human right to live without fear, to be able to send your babies to school, or to the mall, or to a movie and not have to worry about the unstable, psychotic of the week who got their hands on a semi-automatic gun and decides to randomly kill. When will our elected official really say enough is enough? When will the NRA stand up and say that we truly do need boundaries and something has to change?
Our forefathers, when writing the 2nd amendment could not have conceived that we would one day have auto and semi-auto weapons. Having said that it is also inconceivable that they would have ever hide behind this same legislation if these weapons were being used by so many to kill innocent individuals.
Last night, NBCs The Voice had a beautiful tribute to the teachers and children of this terrible event. Please check it out on You Tube. Mr. Cooper, I don't know if networks share programming but this tribute rendition of Leonard Cohens Halleluj
ah seems as if it should belong to the country and the world. And you are just the person I would love to see bring it to everyones attention. I was so moved by it. I know you would be too.
Hey Anderson, i dont cry alot but tonight when you mentioned the little soul named GRACE and then played amazing Grace as a tribute to all of those little souls lost, any real man will shed a tear...............:(
March 1, 2012, I retired after serving 33 years as a teacher and administrator in the public schools of West Virginia. Three of those years I was a first grade teacher. The death of Victoria Soto really affected me, and I have been grieving for her. I know what she did in the last few minutes of her life. I know what the children did. It is very hard for me to get past that mental image. I think about all the teachers out there in our schools and the discussions they had today among themselves and with their students. I can only hope our national and international grief can bring action.
My thoughts and prayers are with these families, I really am at a loss for words about this tragedy. I am so glad to see someone remembering the victims instead of the killers.
I think it would help alot if we add a subject in all grades to teach our children how to treat each other .i think they should tackel bullying, which could stop alot of suicides, anger managment to stop explosive behavior and catch mental illness while there young .These children are worth it .i truly believe there would be less domestic violence deaths less crowded prisons and mass deaths.lets get to the root of the problem before more of our future is lost
You are the only news program I will watch about Sandy Hook. I feel you are so respectful of the families and community. I hate seeing the shooter's face, and know I will not have to see it when watching your program. I wish other news stations would follow your lead.
I too wonder why the shooter's mother was not mentioned .. She was a victim.
I have asked my friend to join me in taking away our son's video games, e.g. Black Ops, etc.. as a way to memorialize the children in CT, and this is what she came up with - i'm so proud of her for taking the bull by the horns and going full steam ahead with this. LET"S START A MOVEMENT Everyone and "BE BRAVE".
BE BRAVE~ Please start and promote this movement with me.
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BE BRAVE~ Start this movement with me in America to reclaim our children's compassion and attention.
Are you Brave enough to put away your children's, and your shooting~video games out of respect for all the children who have been murdered by assault weapons in this country increasingly over the past few years?
Build a world, where violence is not tolerated and entertainment does not condone desensitizing ourselves to the value human life. The games are fun, yes, and playing them does not mean you will become a demon, but what are you missing out on while hunting down fellow cyber~humans? What coping mechanisms for anger and frustration are you building for future reference? What connections is your brain Not making while you are not doing and exploring other gratifying things that might otherwise promote human dignity and empathy for our fellows. What things are you not learning and experiencing and doing during that valuable time?
How can we be SO concerned with our kids math and science scores in this country and not even give a second thought as to where the kids' real time is going, and what kind of skills they are gaining? Wake up America! Time is a wasting!
We have the ability to do SO much without any government involvement at all! No finger pointing! ACT , Just pass things on.
In the name of all the children who have died, please do some thing yourself instead of just blaming the government for lack of gun regulation. Please Honor all our murdered young casualties of this misguided time in our society by putting away those entertaining games that belittle the seriousness of war and murder. I am not blaming these games, I am merely suggesting we take some time to reflect their impact on our already overwhelmed youth.
Be BRAVE, for a week, a month , a year , forever, whatever your conscience can bear. I personally would be happy if violent video games became as uncool as smoking cigarettes. Are you brave enough to do something yourself? Care!Let them know we care and it matters. Please copy and Pass this on, lets change some of this ourselves for these children and their families.
As for me and my house - this type of game will not be allowed anymore.
Mr. Cooper. You have been to many unstable places in the world like Egypt, where guns are common place. I'm guessing that the people there don't feel safe. It is good governance which makes persons safe, not the weapons they carry.
I hear much lately about gun control, the right to bear arms as well as the unsafe feeling many of the U.S. citizens have. I believe the questions the people of the United States have to answer are "do they feel safe?" and "how can we make America safer?"
I have had 36 years in law enforcement and in my country (Canada) I am considered a conservative, even right wing. We have fewer guns per capita and fewer crimes committed by firearms. Perhaps its time to look at prohibiting certain types of firearms and the capacity of weapon magazines.
Other items which require discussion should include the removal of firearms from unstable persons.
You and the folks at CNN have the ear of your country, it is my hope you will use that opportunity to cause change.
What did it take 5 minutes for this to become a gun rights issue? Some psycho with an unobservant family got ahold of guns that never should of been in the home in the first place and shot people. Should we ban butcher knives too? I'm just saying if the teachers were armed how many would we lose 3-5? And who let him into the school in the first place? Had 0 security to start with. anyone could have done it. These are bad times, so give up your rights to protect yourself physically and legally, that's the answer guys! RIP to all the babies who will now be centered in this BS...
US citizens need to be re-educated, or re-focused in much the same way as Eliminating cigarette smoking has been handled – FOR THE SAME REASONS.
To improve societies general health. Just as people have been forced to recognize that smoking will no longer be tolerated in public, so too should semi automatic assault weapons, & gun-trade shows, sale of weapons from pawn shops & so on & so forth. Additionally, I believe the movie media should tone down their way-over-the-top glorification of violence being the American way to "be cool", "powerful" & "popular" – – – with physical fighting, guns & weapons.
Just as US citizens had the "freedom" to smoke anywhere they wanted removed because the LARGER issue of prohibiting (or potentially prohibiting) the "freedom" of others from being exposed to the dangers of cigarette smoke, so too, is the LARGER issue of promoting the "freedom" of others from being exposed to (or the potential of) the dangers of bullets being fired from guns & rifles.
I believe that Guns & Rifles are a huge problem in this country that is NOT as asset to our country.
I believe the glorification of the mind-set that individual "might makes right" is an American value that morphed from the
2nd Amendment & is NOT as asset to our country.
Maybe this had to happen to show us what kind of people we really are when we're "normal". . . "the kind of people we are, just underneath the skin. . .I mean all of us; a lot of naked, wild animals who put such a price on staying alive that they'd claw their neighbors to death just for the privilege." – (Rod Serling 1961)
We scoff at the idea that the Mayaans could predict that the world was going to end in 2012 thousands of years ago; how could they possibly know? Maybe they realized, even then, what human beings are like when they are "normal". There might not be earthquakes, mega-tsunamis, or rogue meteors that hit this planet, but as we get closer to showing how "normal" we can be; how with two mass shootings in the past week in the U.S., a man armed with a knife can go into a Chinese school and hack 22 students on the same day that a gunman can go into a U.S. school and kill 30, leaders of countries besiege, imprison generations, and kill their own people, yes, we may not suffer a natural disaster, but we may find the world, as we know it, has ended just the same.
Dear Anderson,
It is so sad to hear about this horror of young children. we live in Canada and our hearts are broken in so many pieces, it is hard to explain. our deepest deepest sympathy go to all the family's. we wish there was some higher person that could bring these children back to there family's.
my husband and i talk about these video games teenagers and even young kids play. why are most video games all about killing, blowing people up, fighting just to name a few? do we REALLY want our children to follow this kind of action, come on, any normal person would say NO.. plus the internet to go on line and find out how to build constructive items to hurt people, why? i wish the police or law enforement could regulate the internet, there is way to much violence, plus there is NO MORE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, kids want to be behind a screen to hide, REALLY??? we wanted to play outside ball, bike riding, games, hide and seek, basket ball, baseball, hockey, now kids just want to play on computers and electronic's. i think a lot of these games have a lot to do with the thinking of teenagers young adults. why can't they make nice video games, ping pong, hockey, golf, sailing, fishing, something nice that kids can relate to. if i could change a lot of laws the electroinic's would be changed without having violence. i do understand that gun control has to be looked at in the govt eyes, we sure hope the laws get made tougher. here in Canada we can't just have a gun in our house it is illegal. i know Canada has some tougher laws then the USA but your laws to put people away are a lot tougher then ours and we wish we could get your laws to put murder's away for 99 years. they are lucky if they get 3 years. very sad. killing someone they should be put away for life. i wish we could could do more for those families in Newtown. please pass our canadian's wishes to all. god bless everyone and merry christmas.
I felt for you so much for you Anderson trying to read out the names and each tribute. I cried right there along with you- a beautiful and moving tribute for each precious child. Canada's hearts are with all of you.
Thank you so much for not using the name of the perpertrator. My family holds prayers and heart filled sorrow for all of Newtown Ct.
Anderson please do a segment on the charities held for these victims. Contributions that go directly to the families.
I saw a brief segment with an Anita Busch from Auroura Co. Stating that these contributions do not go to the actual families and victims. Please keep them honest
Sincere Fan
Gibsonville NC
Our family feels for those who lost a little one...
Here is a poem I hope will help the families.
An Angel whispered take my hand and come with me.
I went away to a place where there's no tear, nor sorrow or pain only laughter and smiles, there will always be a Tomorrow so I can play.
As I move amongst the clouds. I'll look down and smile upon you, remember how much I love you and know I took your love with me.
Soon you'll come to me until then God will be with you just as He's with me.
Our love is with the families...
As a retired RN that has worked with children of all ages from Pediatrics to Teens with psychiatric & substance abuse problems, I have not seen anyone ask or address the possible use of drugs..Was Adam on any medications & what were they?? Many of these drugs can contribute to violent behavior.. I have always been against over medicating our youth.
I will remember all the names and faces of the innocent babes and grownups that were murdered that day. As for the gunman's name and face, i will burn his memory away in my mind for he doesn't deserve to be remembered.
We all know laws will never protect people from guns and violence...same as drug laws. If people want them they will find a way. Change the gun. Could this have prevented this shooting?? Maybe? If the fingerprint had to be of someone over 21..then yes!! we will always have nstable people and laws that dont work...so the answer is to change the "middle". a pin # to put in the finger print, like an ATM or my LuGGAGE!!!!
You seem to be the least "talking head" out there...can you please pass this along....Everyone is asking what can be done, like there is just no good answer. If we did half of what we do to protect money, guns would be safer. technology has come so far and guns are the same as 100 years ago???? makes no sense!!! Finger print sensors on guns...one can put in as many prints as they wish..but...they are responsible for them...Just like a car...so easy to fix.
Stealing a gun would be useless.
I am a grandmother of 3 children, 2 of which are in grade schools. Why don't we start up an organization at each school in the US that guards the schools? We have Security guards for school crossing, why can't grandmothers/aunts-uncles who have the time, create a schedule with our school system to sit outside the school for 4 hours to watch over our children? I would gladly stand guard once a week, or what ever it takes. Yes I am a registered concealed weapon carrier, who owns a gun for my own protection, I believe there are people out there with guns who can help our community, in some way. Maybe by volunteering to guard our loved ones (with or without our gun) this might bring alittle more peace of mind to the parents of our young children, if they knew it was grandma's shift to watch today.
The right to bear arms, that is guaranteed in the Constitution, should be looked at in the context
of what "arms" meant in the 1700s. The Founding Fathers did not envision Assault Weapons and
the ability to fire so many bullets in a couple of seconds/minutes.
Where is Common Sense in looking at this?
What happened on Friday was a very sad and a horrific event and our prayers go out to the families and those affected by it.
I just want to say that growing up in the Philippines, it is illegal to own a gun. Also, public and private schools are gated and have 24/7 security guards. I think this is still the case today. Having said that, having a security guard at school entrances might be one solution to avoid future attacks and violence in schools.In colleges or universities, you are required to wear a school ID to enter, or sign in with the guard if you forgot your ID or are a guest. Growing up, I haven't heard or know of any crimes committed in schools. The security guards and a physical barrier like a gate or a fence I think will deter someone who has intentions of committing a crime in schools. Maybe, these are some solutions that can be considered.
I am curious as to why the name of the shooter's mother was not mentioned at the memorial service held last night in Newton, Conn. She was a victim as well.
She was a victim? Maybe. Of her own negligence and stupidity. WHO needs to have assault guns in the home? WHO needs to have weapons like that in a home with an unstable person, whether a "son" or not? That woman is just as culpable in my opinion. 20 children and their teachers are gone forever. Why? Because she wanted to "collect" assault weapons? A victim? Hardly.
Chris D. Lovick Jr. Just made a suggestion to the White House. Many won't like it, but here it goes:
I have a suggestion regarding gun control. I'm retired military, and my profession was Security Forces. So, I am not one of these folks who hates the sight of guns.
Here is the suggestion: Require yearly registrations, and well as taxes (fees) on each weapon (at the federal level).
I believe this will (1) help us better track the purchases/ownership of guns, and (2) discourage the collection of guns in the home, as they would now come with an added responsibility (yearly registering/renewal), and an added liability (yearly taxes/fees).
We register cars yearly, why not guns?
I believe that a $50.00 fee/tax for each gun would be reasonable.
This way, we reduce the purchases, without limiting the number of guns people can own.
Based on this scenario, a person who had 10 guns in the home, would be required to register them all, and pay $500.00 annually just to have them. I think most would sell most of them, and choose to reduce their liability.
We could also place an added tax on ammunition as well, at the time of purchase.
The funds collected from the taxes/fees should be required to be earmarked to fund law enforcement efforts to crack down on illegal firearms, as well as on initiatives to address firearm safety and awareness. Funds could also be used for an initiative to promote mental health via anti-violence counseling for people who have been involved in a gun violence incident.
Assault weapons should be banned altogether.
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Pierre Bean Great idea!!!!They need a trained arm Guard at all these schools, which will help with bullying and a way to secure entrances...
We have all been rocked by a horrific tragedy shown at this beautiful Connecticut Elementary School!! We first send our hearts to all the families who lost their beloved children and loved ones. The school personnel was obviously well trained and devoted to their calling to educate and care for their K-4 students!! Their bravery and sacrifice will never be forgotten and will be a burning example to our American schools across the nation!!
As a retired elementary teacher that taught for about 30 years, I am inspired by the efforts of all involved, but very saddened by the loss of an inspirational principal, teachers and other staff. The tragic loss of all of them and the children is so much to bear.
How do we learn from this and go on? Evidently, the safety measures used for the past decade are not enough. Perhaps we need a police officer at each school, that can also be assessible to students for learning safety. More adults in classrooms are necessary, such as educated aides, professionals…no teacher in this era should be alone all day with 18-20 0r more children. It has become a bigger than life responsibility to teach all the standards, guidelines and lessons of life required in this upwardly mobile, technology based world. Teachers are not only charged with teaching the basics but so much more. This in turn would establish more jobs, a safer environment and a school community that can have a more peaceful existence. I disagree that a principal should be armed! Instead, they should be assisted by law enforcement and a plan to not put themselves or anyone else in danger if at all possible. May educators and students rally together to do their best in good and difficult times to instill the values we need to create great citizens for our beloved country, the United States of America…and may God Bless Us All!
I love that you are not saying the shooters name! I so, agree with you. I never want to hear his name again. Those children and teachers should be the ONLY names remembered. Love, Hugs and Prayers to all.
Oh god... you can even hear Anderson choking up. Bless their souls.


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Gavin Polone on "Nemesis" Jeff Zucker: I'm Displeased CNN Hired Him
Television producer Gavin Polone is not keeping quiet about his feelings towards new CNN President Jeff Zucker.
"I have specific reasons to dislike the guy, and his ignominious de-jobbing at the end of a bad run of failure at NBCUniversal was a happy event for me," Polone writes in an open letter featured in The Hollywood Reporter. "Given that, you can guess how displeased I was upon hearing that my nemesis had been chosen to lead CNN."
Polone was a talent agent before becoming a film and television producer. He kept just one client after his transition: Conan O'Brien. Polone worked with Zucker throughout O'Brien's career on NBC, which included O'Brien replacing Jay Leno on The Tonight Show until Zucker decided to move Jay back to late night. Conan left NBC rather than move The Tonight Show's timeslot.
Despite all the bad publicity surrounding Zucker's ouster at NBC, Polone actually thinks Zucker -who led Today to a 16-year ratings winning streak as executive producer, before serving as entertainment president and later CEO of NBCUNiversal - will do well in his new job. "The coup de grace is something I'm loath to mention: Zucker will probably succeed and be thought of as the hero who saved the network," Polone says. "Why will he succeed if he was proved to be such a failure in his last job? There has been so much negative commentary in the public discourse about him and how he handled things that he possibly has been humbled and won't initially make similar mistakes to those he committed in his last position."
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While Polone gives Zucker credit for taking a turn at another network ("You need to be tough to outlast the bad swings," Polone says. "Zucker is tough and competitive," Polone says), he doesn't hold out hope that Zucker has changed. "A--holes reformed by having to confront failure regain their a--holishness soon after re-establishing their lost eminence," Polone says. "Assuming that I'm right and Zucker hits it out of the park at CNN, the previous behavior I have witnessed from him and didn't like will re-emerge, and in a sense, his personality will eventually regress to the ... mean."
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E-motional affairs: How Facebook leads to infidelity
Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex on Thursdays on The Chart. Read more from him at his website, GoodInBed.
While the movie "The Social Network" may be Oscar history, Facebook is creating real-life dramas that lead to anything but Hollywood happy endings. In the last couple of years, I've seen scores of relationships destroyed by what I call "Facebook bombs" - blasts from the past that leave a relationship shattered to pieces.
If you or your mate are spending too much time strolling down a digital Memory Lane, an emotional affair could be in the works. Here's how to Facebook-proof your relationship:
Don't romanticize the past at the expense of the present.
I'm hearing this real-life story more often: A tale of high school sweethearts trying to go "back to the future," only to realize they should have been content to leave those memories in that old shoebox in storage.
How to reconnect and not be awkward or creepy
In the end, we're only human. We all romanticize the past, men and women alike. And no memories are more potent than those first youthful fumblings. We tend to remember the good parts and forget the bad.
Until the advent of Facebook, though, most of us were compelled to leave the past in the past and move on. But now exes of all stripes - high school sweethearts, college lovers, former hookups - are popping up on Facebook. When two people strike up an online friendship, it's easy to idealize each other and blur the line between fantasy and reality. An intense sense of intimacy is quickly fostered, particularly if intimacy was once shared in the past.
But when one partner starts sharing himself or herself with another person, it chips away at the foundation of their core relationship - and starts building a foundation for a new relationship.
Don't keep secrets.
Here's where friendship and attraction cross the line into emotional cheating. Each person stops sharing certain aspects of the friendship with his or her partner, and starts confiding more in the "friend" and less in his or her partner.
In the past few years, I've heard from at least three exes who wanted to be my Facebook friend or found my website and e-mailed me out of the blue. And while it's tempting to accept these friend requests, or to fire back a quick "of course I remember you" e-mail, I haven't done so. That was then; this is now.
And in those rare instances where I have accepted an ex as a Facebook friend, or written back, I've informed my wife and let her read every correspondence. Not because she doesn't trust me, but because we have nothing to hide. Once you have something to hide, that's where the trouble begins. So if an old flame is on your case, just say, "I'm in a relationship now. I wish you all the best."
With Facebook friends like these, who needs enemies?
The instant gratification of Facebook and other social networks stimulates reward centers in the brain - and it's easy to find oneself craving the quick hit of a connection or lamenting its absence. Even without the senses driving attraction, the mind goes into overdrive and imagines that this is the perfect person and the perfect relationship.
Soon, a person may feel like an online friend "knows" him or her better than a partner does. People may feel freer to explore other parts of themselves, while real life (and a real relationship) feels stifling. This artificial sense of intimacy can begin to consume a person's thoughts, which becomes all the more exciting because it's a secret. Most people don't set out to have "e-motional" affairs, and that's one of the dangers of social networks like Facebook.
It often just happens, usually as a friendly relationship snowballs into something more meaningful. A common myth is that only people in unhappy relationships have emotional affairs. In fact, many men and women who commit emotional infidelity report that they were happy when they became involved with their affair partners. Rather than seeking out love (or sex), unfaithful partners gradually blur the boundaries between friendship and intimacy over an extended period of time.
Facebook friends: More powerful than Internet porn .
As a sex therapist, I tend to hear a lot about people's sexual habits, both when they're with their partner and when they're on their own. Now, it's no secret that when men self-pleasure they often choose Internet pornography over their own erotic imagination. Think of it as the lazy man's way; the difference between reading and watching TV.
However, men who are Facebooking with their exes and falling in love all over again often skip the computer and go back to those potent formative memories to get themselves off. That's how strong the past is - even stronger than Internet porn!
An online affair is fueled by feelings of attraction between two people. You start to idealize the other person and fantasize about what sex would be like. This only adds fuel to the fire. Just like primary relationships, affairs that start out slowly and build a connection before progressing to sex are often the most difficult to break off - and the most damaging to the other relationship.
There's no shame in disconnecting your Facebook account.
Whether you're a man or a woman, if you find you're thinking more and more about the past, and getting to the point where you're fantasizing about what it would be like to be with that person again, it's time to unplug your computer, and get back to "face-timing" with your partner instead of Facebooking with the past. There's no shame in removing the one variable causing all the problems.
Look, in the end we're all living, breathing sexual beings. Attraction doesn't end once we're in a relationship. Even the most happily coupled people are going to feel the familiar buzz of attraction when someone catches their eye or laughs at one of their jokes.
However, while feeling attraction is unavoidable, acting on it crosses the line. Attraction is one ingredient of an emotional affair. In order for attraction to launch into an emotional affair, a person has to also develop intimacy and, eventually, a feeling of connection with that person that supersedes their current relationship. In other words, attraction + effort + intimacy = emotional infidelity. Take away one, and all you're left with is a natural instinct or a harmless Facebook friendship. Put all three together, and with friends like that... your relationship has a new enemy.
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Formerly of Watertown, Massachusetts, Paul Duval died on June 24 in a rappelling accident near Moonlight Ridge, Custer, South Dakota.
Formerly of Watertown, Massachusetts, Paul Duval died on June 24 in a rappelling accident near Moonlight Ridge, Custer, South Dakota.
Mistaking the mark near the end of a rope for the center mark, he fell to the ground.
Paul was born in Boston, raised in Allston and graduated from Boston Technical High School in 1954. He had degrees from Wentworth Institute and Northeastern University, and a master's degree from Boston University. As a young man he was an avid motorcycle racer.
As a member of the U.S. Army Signal Corp, he spent his military service in Europe and was honorably discharged in 1962. He returned to Boston in 1964 after working for two years in Paris as an engineer.
He lived there with his wife Marie-Françoise, and baby daughter Nathalie.
Paul spent his professional career as a dedicated high-school teacher in the Boston Public School System. He taught at Boston Technical, Charlestown and Madison Park high schools, and spent many of his summers as a camp counselor in Maine.
He was a longtime member of the Appalachian Mountain Club and very active as a rock-climbing instructor. His climbing experience included excursions to Europe, Africa and Mexico, and all over North America.
Through Paul's gift of time and equipment, numerous local children in Hidalgo, Mexico, were able to enjoy the freedom of rock climbing that would have been nearly impossible without him. Paul was a role model for all in our climbing community. In his 70s he was climbing as strongly as ever. On his 70th birthday, with his friend Rick "Cowboy" Ross, Paul sent seven 5.10s to celebrate. He loved life, and all that surrounded him. He is survived by his wife, Karen Hargrave.
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Beyond Meat Swag Giveaway!
Their vegan chicken is eerily realistic, and if you're into plant meat that looks and tastes like meat-meat, that's a huge win. I didn't go vegan because I hated meat. I loved the taste of meat. I went vegan because I believe eating animals is morally wrong (and when you think about it, pretty sick). You wouldn't eat your friends. Or your dog. So why would you eat a pig? Or a chicken? Or a cow? It just doesn't make sense.
Speaking of cows, Beyond Meat just came out with new Beef-Free Crumbles. I haven't seen them sold around here yet, but I'll definitely be blogging about those when I can find them. In the meantime, Beyond Meat sent me some sweet swag — tees, a cap, stickers, butttons. But problem is, I don't wear caps. And the tees are unisex sizes in small and medium, both of which are too big for me. I'm really picky with my tees — ladies' fit only.
So I wanna share my swag! There's one small unisex tee. (By the way, my favorite thing about these tees are the very well-placed commas. God, I love a good comma).
And one medium unisex tee.
Both would fit dudes very well. Or they'd also be great for ladies with boobs! (I have no boobs ... ) And the cap is an adjustable trucker's cap, so it'll fit anyone who likes to wear caps.
I'll throw in some stickers and buttons too!
Leave a comment letting me know which item (small tee, medium tee, or hat) you're interested in winning, and I'll randomly select three winners. Please leave your email address in your comment so I can contact you!
Oh, and by the way, if you're wondering who won the Comfortably Yum e-cookbook giveaway, that would be Christina Tyrakowski! Congrats!
42 comments:
- racheyalex said...
I'm in it for the comma, baby. plus beyond meat is omnoms. I'd wear that grammatically correct shirt (uni S) to my conservative workplace and everything.
- February 12, 2014 at 9:47 PM
- Crissy said...
Would love the medium tee!
- February 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM
- Sarah said...
I love Beyond Meat! I would pick the small shirt. I'm a sucker for bright lettering!
- February 12, 2014 at 10:22 PM
- Jan Scholl said...
Oh my! That red shirt is calling to me! I have a feeling no one around here would understand it, tho. My sister in law stands up in a restaurant and says "oh she can't eat that. She's a vegetarian" I feel like she is telling them I am a felon or something. :P
- February 12, 2014 at 10:29 PM
- Unknown said...
I just tried some Beyond Meat and OMGyum!!!! I'm really diggin' the red tee.
- February 12, 2014 at 10:57 PM
- La said...
Ehhehe! Fork me! I'd love the medium.
- February 12, 2014 at 11:55 PM
- Unknown said...
That small brown tee looks sooo nice! I love this color combination! And where can I buy Beyond meat products? Don't think I can find smth in russian stores..
- February 13, 2014 at 12:12 AM
- Caz said...
gotta love good grammar, especially if you're wearing it on your chest! i'd love either tee. the small to wear out or the medium for a pajama. the pins would be cool, too! thanks!
- February 13, 2014 at 12:31 AM
- Beth said...
I'd love the small brown tee -- and I really love a well-placed comma too! :) Thanks!!
- February 13, 2014 at 5:09 AM
- KateMcGrath said...
I would love the small tee. I can't wait to try their Beef-like crumbles, as I love the chicken.
- February 13, 2014 at 5:45 AM
- Stacielynn said...
I love the small tee! i seriously love the comma too, haha!
- February 13, 2014 at 6:20 AM
- Shannon said...
I would proudly wear a small tee :)
- February 13, 2014 at 6:33 AM
- Pam @ herbieontherun.com said...
Grammatically correct apparel gives me lady wood. I'd love that small t-shirt!
- February 13, 2014 at 7:00 AM
- Laura Thompson said...
Since everyone wants the t-shirts, I'd love the hat!
- February 13, 2014 at 9:23 AM
I'm going to Hawaii and would love to wear the hat on bad hair days there.
- February 13, 2014 at 9:59 AM
- Lisa said...
Small tee, please! I used Beyond Meat all the time and would love to wear one for when I teach vegan cooking classes :)
- February 13, 2014 at 10:38 AM
Would love the small-tee.
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- February 13, 2014 at 11:42 AM
- veganvixen said...
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- February 13, 2014 at 11:52 AM
- veganvixen said...
Would love the small tee, I love Beyond Meat products, I get them at our local vegan market here in Denver, Nooch!
veganvixen08 at gmail.com
- February 13, 2014 at 11:53 AM
- Dana Vickerson said...
haha you TOTALLY beat me to writing a post just like this! i got my beyond meat ambassador package back in january, but i haven't gotten it together to offer up any swag from it. now i am motivated to do the same.
(don't need to enter contests, just thought it was funny) :)
- February 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM
I use the Beyond Meat grilled chicken strips whenever I make Cheesy Un-chicken Quesadillas - so yummy!! I would love the medium tee!
- February 13, 2014 at 2:54 PM
- Arielle V said...
I'd love the Small tee! I've never tried Beyond Meat, but I'm always on the look out for new products to try, especially now that I'm making the transition from Vegetarian to Vegan. :-)
- February 13, 2014 at 5:09 PM
- kelly g. said...
Medium tee!
I've only tried the Beyond Meat chicken strips, but they were great - perfect in vegan chicken noodle soup!
- February 13, 2014 at 8:12 PM
- Unknown said...
I would rock that small tee all day! yes!
- February 13, 2014 at 10:00 PM
- lymie eating coconut said...
I'd love the small tee. I love Beyond Meat and can't wait to try the Beyond Beef version.
- February 14, 2014 at 1:48 PM
- VT Freebie Girl said...
medium tee linadanna at aol dot com
- February 15, 2014 at 6:21 PM
Oooo, I love Beyond Meat too! I adore that unisex, medium tee.
- February 17, 2014 at 11:11 AM
I love your Blog and am currently obsessed with Beyond Meat! I would love either size tee and/or a sticker to show off my obsession.
Keep up the awesome recipes- they are the bomb!
Thank you!
- February 17, 2014 at 5:45 PM
- Jennifer Hogle said...
Oh, the hat! I would happily wear that to work!!!
clarkhogle at gmail.com
- February 17, 2014 at 10:40 PM
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- February 17, 2014 at 10:58 PM
- misskorus said...
I would LOVE the medium shirt because I LOVE Beyond Meat! :)
- February 17, 2014 at 10:59 PM
- Unknown said...
The medium would be awesome. I have used Beyond Meat in several dishes over the last few months. Love this stuff. email@example.com
- February 17, 2014 at 11:03 PM
I would wear that hat while working in my veg garden
juelz_russell at hot mail dot com
- February 17, 2014 at 11:08 PM
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- February 17, 2014 at 11:39 PM
- Unknown said...
I love the cap!! Would love to wear it to my office on casual Fridays :) theodiaz42605 @ gmail.com
- February 17, 2014 at 11:43 PM
- Stephanie said...
I am just starting my journey on the vegetarian path and would love to rock the T-shirt (M)! On a quest to find Beyond Meat in my area since I have heard so many great things!
- February 18, 2014 at 7:17 AM
- Le Blonde said...
I love that Small tea!! Great color! Also I die for pins and stickers. LOVE flair. I just found the Beyond Meat beef crumbles at whole foods and cannot wait to try them. I'm thinking about putting them in a shepards pie to start! I cannot wait to see what recipes you develop with them!
- February 18, 2014 at 7:44 AM
- Le Blonde said...
Tea -__- I meant small Tshirt. Dah.
- February 18, 2014 at 7:47 AM
Those t-shirts are amazing and I would love the small tee!
- February 18, 2014 at 8:29 AM
- Unknown said...
I love the tshirts! Either one would be awesome ;)
- February 18, 2014 at 4:22 PM
- Tab said...
Not sure if this giveaway is still open, but I would love the small tee! Thank you!
- February 19, 2014 at 12:01 PM
- Unknown said...
Small tee! :) I haven't been able to find any cute veganism promoting t-shirts that aren't $40!
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This white-and-gold arrangement dresses up a porch or mantel. Coat real or crafts-store leaves with gold spray paint, then glue them to small white pumpkins (look for varieties such as 'Lumina' or Cotton Candy at your local farmers market or pumpkin patch). Paint small orange gourds gold to match the color scheme.
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One delicious variation on an old classic was this frozen pizza by Mor Fun Foods…
Next we passed by Toobro, a distributor of the Golan brand of cheeses, Morning Select, Spreads Instead, Emes, etc., etc., We will, be'ezras Hashem, do a more in-depth review of their products over the next few weeks.
Products we got to taste within Toobro's lines included a delicious Roaster Garlic and Herbs by Spread Instead. Spread Instead products are succulent blends of gourmet cream cheese, herbs, etc. Frankly, we couldn't enough of it… Superb, excellent, delicious… none of these words do actual justice to the taste
Next we visited Lily Bloom's Kitchen. The owner, Larry Shiller, took his mother's recipe for delicious macaroons (I've never been a fan of macaroons, but these were good!!!), in various flavors: Chocolate, White Chocolate and Raspberry, Chocolate/Almond, Chocolate/Walnut, Chocolate/Peanut Butter, Chocolate/Cinnamon, Chocolate/Cherry, and Chocolate/Orange.
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